Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

About five thousand men and women from more than eighty countries will compete for seventeen days at the Vancouver Olympics.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

President Abraham Lincoln asked the states of the Union for seventy-five thousand soldiers to help end the southern rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

During his thirty-five years in a mental hospital in Switzerland, Mister Wolfli created twenty-five thousand pages of drawings and stories.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Top winner Eric Yang will receive twenty-five thousand dollars for college and a trip to the Galapagos Islands this summer.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

You really have to work at it." Junior Achievement says three hundred eighty-five thousand volunteers support its programs around the world.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

An estimated five thousand protesters known as Red Shirts occupied a three square kilometer area of Bangkok's business district.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

Business was so good that a five thousand dollar investment in the cattle industry could make forty-five thousand dollars in four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

By the end of eighteen eighty-one, the town of Tombstone had a population of more than five thousand.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

A recent story in a local agricultural newspaper said the first robot cost one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

As many as five thousand people left the city each year between two thousand and two thousand six.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

In nineteen fifty-six, the United States launched a Jupiter military rocket that flew more than five thousand kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The new findings involved more than five thousand people in the second generation of the Framingham Heart Study.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection covers five thousand years of human culture from all over the world.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

Douglas said he agreed with every word of it except,he said, seventy-five thousand soldiers would not be enough.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

This week, the website WikiLeaks published more than seventy-five thousand American military documents on the war in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

One hundred-fifty years ago today, President Abraham Lincoln approved an order for the services of seventy-five thousand militiamen.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

There is a fine of up to five thousand dollars for not returning a census form, but the fine is rarely enforced.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

It was not a dream. He really was on his way to New York City with five thousand dollars in his pocket.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

It said that his father had paid the company the five thousand dollars that Paul had stolen.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said Friday that twenty-five thousand barrelswere captured in the past twenty-four hours.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

The thirty-five thousand works of art in the museum represent thousands of years of human culture and come from all over the world.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

When the two naval forces were five thousand meters apart, Admiral Dewey ordered the Americans to fire.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Graduate students who receive a grant get nine free credits to take courses.Undergraduates receive between one thousand and five thousand dollars in support.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Radiocarbon test results from two laboratories show that the flutes are over thirty-five thousand years old.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Some people have paid as much as sixty-five thousand dollars for the chance to climb Everest.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Within a month, more than five thousand banks across the country failed and closed their doors.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

In nineteen seventy-five, the average salary in Major League Baseball was just under forty-five thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2010.07.26